It was the most radical human-breeding experiment in American history. The Repository for Germinal Choice--nicknamed "the Nobel Prize sperm bank"--opened to notorious fanfare in 1980, and for two decades women flocked to it from all over the country to choose a sperm donor from its roster of Nobel-laureate scientists, mathematical prodigies, successful businessmen, and star athletes. But the bank quietly closed its doors in 1999--its founder dead, its confidential records sealed, and the fate of its children and donors unknown. Crisscrossing the country and tracking down previously unknown family members, award-winning Slate columnist David Plotz unfolds the full and astonishing story of the Nobel Prize sperm bank and its founder's radical scheme to change our world.

AUTHORtS NOTE

PROLOGUE: FEBRUARY 2001

CHAPTER 1 THE GENETIC PASSION OF ROBERT GRAHAM

CHAPTER 2 MANUFACTURING GENIUS

CHAPTER 3 THE SEMEN DETECTIVE

CHAPTER 4 DONOR CORAL

CHAPTER 5 DONOR WHITE

CHAPTER 6 BIRTH OF A NOBEL SPERM BANK CELEBRITY

CHAPTER 7 A FAMILY OF BASTARDS

CHAPTER B THE SECRET OF DONOR WHITE

CHAPTER 9 MY SHORT, SCARY CAREER AS A SPERM DONOR

CHAPTER 10 WHO IS THE REAL DONOR CORAL?

CHAPTER 11 DONOR WHITE FINDS HIS JOY

CHAPTER 12 A FATHER, FOR BETTER OR WORSE

CHAPTER 13 SPERMICIDE

EPILOGUE: SEPTEMBER 2004

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